The babysitter, Jessi, has been trying to catch proof for me that Levin can say her name. Well today she got it on video, what a goof! :) He says more and more everyday!

The boys are both growing so fast, is there anyway to slow life down? Jake's brother and his wife had a baby girl yesterday so after seeing her tonight, in the same hospital Levin was born at, it doesn't seem like it's been 14 months since we were up there with Levin! Levin is close to walking but not quite there yet. Cruz is loving preschool and is always learning new things. Here's a couple pictures and some cute videos I took this week. One video is of Levin being a goof and the other is of Cruz reciting the pledge of allegiance (which I had no idea he knew until he just started saying it at the dinner table tonight!).





At the Pumpkin Patch









Blakely Marie

I got a new phone this weekend so I was going through all my files on my old blackberry and came across this video. Thought it was too cute not to share! Can you tell we have very few quiet moments in our house? :)

1st Day of Preschool

Cruz started Preschool on Wednesday! He goes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning from 8:30 to 11:00. He was so excited to go to school and didn't even care when Jake & I left. During the preschool open house the week before he found out there was a train table there so as soon as he found the train table that morning he could care less who was there with him! He's gone 3 times so far and he seems to really enjoy it. Here's a few pictures from the first day of school.

1st Birthday

Levin turned one on August 18th and we had two separate parties for him so I'm just finally getting pictures up here! I took him in today for his one year check up and he's still a big boy like he has been since he was born:) He was 25lbs 12oz, in the 94th percentile for weight, and he was 31 1/2 inches tall, in the 91st percentile for height. He's still just a little heavier and taller then his brother was at this point, as soon as he starts walking I'm sure there will be some wrestling matches going on at our house and it might be a throw up each time of who wins. Levin's going to be tough and I can already tell he's going to be a lot more ornery then Cruz ever was. Here's some pictures from both birthday parties and his actual birthday, gosh that last year went fast!

Fishing

Sunday morning the boys got to go fishing for the first time on Grandpa's boat out at Czechland Lake. The weather was perfect and Makenna and Cruz caught quite a few fish. I think Cruz had more fun playing with the worms then actually fishing but we won't tell Grandpa! Levin hated his pink life jacket he had to wear (poor guy) so he spent most of the time sitting on the floor of the boat playing with his toys or eating snacks. Hopefully many more fishing days with Grandpa will be in the future for the boys!

Colorado Trip

We had a great trip to Colorado. Thank you Scott's for inviting us to come hike with you! We made it to the top of Pikes Peak in 6 1/2 hours and it was quite the workout but we survived:) Not sure we'll ever hike a mountain again but I'm glad to be able to say we did it! We left Thursday and stayed Thursday night at Steve & Leah's house in Colorado Springs (Steve and Jake went to high school together). Then on Friday we did some sight seeing and of course rode the train at Criple Creek for Cruz. Friday and Saturday night we stayed in a cabin at the base of Pikes Peak with the Scott family, it was a beautiful cabin. We hiked on Saturday so Pam took Cruz to Santa's Workshop that day, which he of course had to ride the train over and over again. (I don't think he'll ever grow out of this train stage!) Little Levin got to stay in Nebraska with Grandpa and Grandma Walkenhorst since he doesn't ride well in the car but it sounds like he got spoiled rotten while we were gone so I'm sure he didn't mind! Hard to believe in less then a week he'll be a year old already! Anyways here are some pictures from the trip...click on the slideshow to make them larger.

July

Today my baby is 11 months old! In another month we'll be celebrating Levin's first birthday, time just goes so fast! Our summer has been so busy so that's definitely not helping time slow down any! Here's quite a few pictures from this month, some from the 4th and then most of them from this past week when my uncle and cousins were here from Arizona for my cousin Marcus' wedding. Jeni, Mike, Zach & Zoe stayed with us at our house and Cruz and Zach had so much fun together. I wish we lived closer to them because Cruz already misses Zach! Anyways Katie & Marcus had a beautiful wedding on Friday night, congrats to them! Cruz & Zach got to be ring bearers in their wedding so that was fun and they were so cute! We actually had the whole Keller family together at the wedding so we got a big group shot of everyone, not sure that has happened in quite awhile! Anyways next on our schedule is a trip to Colorado the first weekend in August to hike Pikes Peak, it will be the first time I've been away from my boys for more then one night so it's gonna be tough but I think Jake and I will have a great time! Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Summer so far...

I get worse and worse and keeping up on this blog! So here are some photos from the past few months. In June Jake graduated with his bachelors degree from Bellevue University so we had a little party for him in our back yard. Then a couple weeks ago when the tornado (or straight line winds, depending on who you ask) hit Fremont we had almost half of our huge silver maple tree fall in our backyard so there's some pictures from that. There's also a few from Old Settlers and then some from today when we went out to visit Jim and Sandy on their lake. The kids had a blast and can't wait to come out again, thanks again Jim & Sandy for letting us come out to visit!!!

Army Crawling

Levin started Army crawling on Tuesday night. It was pretty funny so I took a video of it. Now, two days later, and he's already getting around a lot better then this! Cruz is not very good at sharing so now that Levin can get to his choo choos we're gonna have to work very hard on sharing. This should be a fun stage ha!

Cruz at 3 years old

Cruz turned 3 on March 11th, gosh time has flown since he was born! At his 3 year check up he was 40 inches tall, in the 93rd percentile for height, and he was 34.25 lbs and in the 90th percentile for weight. He's definitely a big boy all around :) He still loves his trains and definitely loves playing outside whenever he gets a chance! Here's some pictures from the day of his birthday and both his birthday parties.

Lincoln Half Marathon

I usually don't post anything on here about Jake & I but after training for 4 months and finishing the Lincoln Half Marathon on Sunday I thought we deserved to have some pictures up here:) We've been training since January 1st and finally on Sunday (May 1st) we got to run our 13.1 mile race! Jake finished his in 2 hours and 1 minute and I finished mine is 2 hours and 20 minutes. There were 10,000 people running the race this year and it was an amazing experience. We both said we'll do it again next year, hopefully we can recruit some more people to run it with us next year! Any takers???

Easter 2011

Wow I didn't realize it has been 2 months since my last post! I'm putting up Easter pictures today but I just realized I completely skipped over Cruz's 3rd birthday! I'll have to get pictures up of that later. Anyways, we had a great day today celebrating Easter with both of our families. Cruz really enjoyed all the easter egg hunts (we've been practicing at home all week!)

6 months old

Levin is now 6 months old, where did the last 6 months go??? He had his 6 month check up this last week and he weighed 17lbs 13ozs which puts him in the 50th percentile for weight and he was 28 3/4" which puts him in the 95th percentile for height. (He was the exact weight as Cruz but 1 3/4" taller then Cruz was at this age) We finally have him on some medicine for spitting up so he doesn't spit up quite as much as he used too and he also seems happier now. He also is eating baby food now so I think that has helped stop the spitting some too. He loves to scream and talk, he says dada all the time and his new thing is to roar like a dinosaur. Cruz loves to roar like a dinosaur so now Levin makes the same noise, it's pretty cute. Cruz will be 3 in March, we're planning a choo choo party for him. He loves his trains! We've finally been able to get outside some this past couple of weeks and both the boys love it. I hope spring will be here soon!!!



The boys in the same outfit at around the same age, funny how different they look when you put them side by side! We definitely have one Aufenkamp and one Walkenhorst!








Cruz says "mom lets take a picture with all my choo choos!"










6 months old and first time drinking out of a sippy cup















My little monster

Cruz singing, Levin screaming

Levin has definitely found his voice and he loves to scream all the time. Here's a video from this morning of Cruz singing his songs and Levin trying to "sing" too :)

My little football player







Attempting to sit up!







































Levin & Easton with their Grandmas at the Heimann Christmas